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39 Week Vocabulary Lesson Plan Week #4:
Definition MATCH for roots GEN and GRAD/GRESS/GRED

This activity is NOT interactive, but the 19 answers are in a link at the BOTTOM of this page. You have permission to make a hard copy for further vocabulary study at home or in the classroom.

19 vocabulary words with the roots of GEN and GRAD/GRESS/GRED.
  • 9 GEN words
    gender, genealogy, generation,
    generic, generosity, genius,
    genuine, indogenous, regenerate
  • 10 GRAD/GRESS words
    aggressive, centigrade, congressional,
    degrade, degree, digress, gradient,
    graduation, ingredient, progress

    1. _____ congressional

    2. _____ genius

    3. _____ centigrade

    4. _____ gender

    5. _____ degrade

    6. _____ graduation

    7. _____ aggressive

    8. _____ generation

    9. _____ gradient

    10. _____ genuine

    11. _____ progress

    12. _____ generic

    13. _____ genealogy

    14. _____ degree

    15. _____ regenerate

    16. _____ generosity

    17. _____ digress

    18. _____ ingredient

    19. _____ indigenous

Match the 19 definitions below to the vocabulary words on the left.
    a. - A group of contemporary individuals; time interval between the birth of parents and their offspring (noun)

    b. - Very great natural power of the mind; a person having such power (noun)

    c. - Amount; extent; a unit for measuring temperature; a unit for measuring the opening of an angle (noun)

    d. - Liberality in spirit or act, esp. readiness in giving; munificence; nobility of behavior (noun)

    e. - Vigorously energetic, esp. in the use of initiative and forcefulness; boldly assertive (adjective)

    f. - Ceremony of conferring degrees; award or acceptance of an academic degree or study (noun)

    g. - Pertaining to or applicable to all members of a class, group or kind; not protected by trademark registration - ®. (adjective)

    h. - Advancement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage; growth and development (noun)

    i. - Pertaining to the national legislative body of the U.S. (the Senate and the House of Representatives) (adjective)

    j. - To grow again; to form (new tissue or a new part) to replace what is lost (verb)

    k. - Actually being what is seems or claims to be; real; true (adjective)

    l. - An account of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor or ancestors (noun)

    m. - Divided into 100 degrees as a scale; abbreviation is cent.; symbol is C (adjective)

    n. - something that enters as an element into a mixture (noun)

    o. - To lower in dignity or estimation; to bring into contempt; to lower in character or quality (verb)

    p. - The groupings of nouns into certain classes, such as masculine, feminine and neuter; sex (noun)

    q. - To turn aside or away from the main topic or argument in speaking or writing (verb)

    r. - Degree of inclination of a highway, railroad, etc. or the rate of ascent or descent of a stream or river (noun)

    s. - Originating in the region or country where found; native (adjective)

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Crosswords: ["S138Level 1 C/W"] -- ["S138Level 2 C/W"] -- ["S138Level 3 C/W"]
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Fill-in-the-Blanks: ["S138Level 1-FITB"] -- ["S138Level 2-FITB"] -- ["S138Level 3-FITB"]
Synonym/Antonym Encounters: [S138Level 1-Syn/Ant] -- [S138Level 2-Syn/Ant] -- [S138Level 3-Syn/Ant]
Definition MATCH: ["S138Level 1-Match"] -- ["S138Level 2-Match"] -- ["S138Level 3-Match"]
Is It True or False?: ["S138Level 1 T/F"] -- ["S138Level 2 T/F"] -- ["S138Level 3 T/F"]
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